SPECIAL REPORT

United STATES
Today

Donald Trump

onald John Trump is a nominee

of the Republican Party in the
2016 presidential election. A
businessman by profession, he is the
chairman of The Trump Organization,
the principal holding company for
his real estate ventures and other
investments. He is also an author and
a television personality. In June 2015,
he announced his candidacy for the
U.S. presidential elections 2016.
As per his political views,
Donald Trump is opposed to freetrade agreements with other nations
and is in favour of banning illegal
immigration, as well as immigration
from such countries that have a track
record of terrorism, particularly
against the United States. He is
against gun control and legalization
of recreational marijuana and being
pro-life, he is opposed to late-term
abortions and favours cutting federal
funding for Planned Parenthood.
In terms of his foreign policy,
Trump believes in the America First
approach and believes the United
States must stop paying to defend
countries, which can afford to defend
themselves. He terms Saudi Arabia
the worlds biggest funder of terrorism
and believes in totally dismantling
Irans global terror network.
He is in favour of simplifying the
tax code, as well as reducing federal
income taxes to boost consumer
spending, encourage savings and
investment, and maximizing longterm economic growth. He believes
since 2010, the American people have
had to suffer under the incredible
economic burden of the Affordable
Care Act, which is commonly known
as Obamacare. He wants to replace
Obamacare with a new health care
plan that will require less money for
the country and for the people.
Regarding the economy and jobs,
he opposes outsourcing of jobs and
services and wants to bring jobs
back to the country from China,
Japan, Mexico and other countries.
He believes China has been robbing
Americans of billions of dollars of
capital and millions of jobs and he
is in favour of raising the prevailing

He is in favour of simplifying the tax

code, as well as reducing federal income
taxes to boost consumer spending,
encourage savings and investment, and
maximizing long-term economic growth.
wage paid to H1B visa holders. But he
will force companies to give coveted
entry-level jobs to the existing
domestic pool of unemployed people
in the U.S. He supports complete
surveillance of people at the cost of
their civil liberties. Trump regards
global warming as an expensive hoax
and regards all subsequent climate
science as nonsense.
He is against making money out
of student loans and says education
matters should be overseen at a local
level, instead of central level. He
supports decreasing the spending
of the Department of Education to
curb the national debt. He supports
improving the Veterans Administration

(VA) and says the United States takes

better care of illegal immigrants than
its own veterans.
Having announced his America
First energy plan, Donal Trump is
in favour of using nuclear energy
and will not allow oil cartels to use
energy as a weapon. He says America
will accomplish complete energy
independence and will declare a
strategic economic and U.S. foreign
policy goal during his presidency.
He wants to revive the coal industry
to its old glory and thinks clean
energy policies to reduce carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions will drive
unemployment
further,
costing
millions of jobs in the country.
SOUTHASIA JuLY 2016

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